What We Know About the South Carolina Shooting So Far…

“I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go," shooter told victim

A crazed lone gunman struck a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last night, killing nine people.

Here’s what we know about the story so far.

The suspect, who was captured 250 miles away in Shelby, North Carolina, earlier today, is identified as 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof, a white man from Columbia who family members describe as a “quiet, soft spoken” person with few friends.

The shooting took place yesterday at the Emanuel African Methodist EpiscopalChurch in Charleston.

All of the nine victims – three males and six females – were black, leading investigators to conclude the shooting was motivated by racial hatred, which prompted a federal hate crime investigation by the Justice Department, US Attorney’s Office and FBI.

Among those killed was Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41, a South Carolina state senator and the pastor of the church.

The gunman is said to have used a .45 caliber pistol gifted him by his uncle, and killed all but one person, telling her to “Tell the world what happened.”

A 5-year-old girlalso reportedly survived the massacre after following her grandmother’s advice to play dead.

When one of the victims pleaded with him to stop, the suspect allegedly responded, “I have to do it. You rape our women and you’re taking over our country. And you have to go.”

Photos online reveal the shooter had a jacket with two patches of South African flags associated with the Apartheid era. Another photo of Roof on the hood of his Hyundai Elantra also shows a frontside license plate featuring confederate state flags.

“Several locations in South Carolina were subject to bomb threats Thursday afternoon in the wake of a shooting that killed nine people at a Charleston church Wednesday night,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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